Resources

Ending Violence Against Women & girls

Signs of Hope
They support and empower survivors and educate the community to end sexual violence, provide 24-hour crisis intervention, free and confidential counseling and a prevention education program that promotes healthy relationships and advances social change.

St. Judes Ranch for Children
A beacon of hope for abused, abandoned and neglected children and young people in Southern Nevada. To donate for the new Healing Center, the first of its kind program for the specialized care of child victims of sex trafficking, go here.

The Shade Tree
The Shade Tree Organization provides safe shelter to homeless and abused women & children in crisis. Offering life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self-reliance.

SafeNest
SafeNest is Nevada’s largest, most comprehensive nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic violence by focusing on five core confidential, trauma-informed services: emergency shelter, 24/7 crisis hotline, counseling, advocacy and prevention education

Racial Justice

Make It Work Nevada
Make It Work Nevada centers its work and organizing around the experiences and challenges of Black women and women of color.

One AAPI Nevada
The mission of One AAPI Nevada is to advance the interests of all Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) in Nevada through advocacy on issues such as access to healthcare, education, and pathways to citizenship.

Mass Liberation Project Nevada
The Mass Liberation Project supports grassroots organizing to abolish the criminal legal system as we know it. We are a site of personal transformation, training, coaching and strategy for organizers who are directly impacted by the system.

NAACP-LV
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

Nevada Native Caucus
With respect to the 27 Tribes of Nevada, the Nevada Native Caucus is doing their best to be of service to our Nations and at the same time, using their platform to empower all other Indigenous Peoples within the state of Nevada, for one common interest: Sovereignty.

Arriba Las Vegas Workers Center
A grassroots organization that unites day laborers, domestic workers, and other low-wage and migrant workers to defend their rights, fight for dignity and win justice for all. 

LGBTQIA+ Rights

Gender Justice Nevada
A Nevadan organization fighting for changing laws and policies to ensure safety and freedom from fear and mistreatment based on sex/gender identity or expression

The Center
The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, a community-based organization, supports and promotes activities directed at furthering the well-being, positive image, and human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and queer community, its allies, and low to moderate income residents in Southern Nevada.

Silver State Equality
Silver State Equality brings the voices of LGBTQ+ people and allies to institutions of power in Nevada and across the United States, striving to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ+ people.

Constitutional Equality

ZoeNicholson.com & ERA the heart of Miss Alice Paul
Zoe Nicholson is a feminist, activist, a long-time ERA advocate, and a friend of Nevada NOW.

Nevada NOW: The ERA
We are proud that Nevada led the way in reenergizing the ERA movement, after 45 years, when we became the 36th state to ratify in 2017 thanks to Sen. Pat Spearman and Nevada activists. It is past time for women to have Constitutional Equality. However, we still need help to get the 28th Amendment published and that is where we need your help today.

ERA Coalition
The ERA Coalition’s goal is to amend the Constitution to ensure that one cannot be discriminated against because of one’s sex. The ERA Coalition is comprised of some 250 national and local partner and supporter organizations across the country representing millions of advocates working for the equality of all.

National NOW Constitutional Equality
NOW is a proud supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and prioritizes Constitutional equality in our work. We are closer than ever to having the ERA enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, giving women explicit protections in our nation’s highest law.